Hello the rabble DIY'rs,

I am just finished up my second sporran after a slight hiatus from buying a house and getting married. I have decided to start on another project being the conversion of a tweed jacket of regular design to a tweed kilt jacket. I have read over a number of tutorials on the site and still have a couple questions.

The first is what measure should be used for length in the back?

The second is should it have epaulets, most of the kilt jackets I see have them. In the thread on HRH I noticed that his jackets did not have them and seem to have a much cleaner line with out them. do they serve a function aside from their martial reference?

Thanks to the rabble.
Cheers,
Jeremy